Feature: The Ramble
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The Ramble: Steroids are Worse Than Gambling, Drug Free Olympics Impossible, Trevor Graham Trial Fallout, Horses on Steroids and the Dog Days of June— Talk of steroids, human growth hormone, EPO continue to dominate in the world of sports.
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The Ramble: Steroids, Steroids Everywhere and Human Growth Hormone Too— Stories related to steroids (and other PEDs) dominate the sports pages, from the Kentucky Derby to the NFL, from baseball to the Olympics.
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The Ramble: Steroid Busts, Steroid Tests, Steroid Trials, Steroid Investigations, And Falling Production
— In the past week there have been a ton of stories dealing with steroids and human growth hormone (HGH).
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The Ramble: Smaller Baseball Players, an Olympic Weightlifting Drug Scandal, Drug Snitches and Drug Cheats, Hamstring Injuries and Tiger Loses the Masters— As a recurring theme, the steroids and HGH in sports story dominates the news once again. Oh, and Tiger lost.
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The Ramble Is Back: Canseco, Conte, Opening Days the Final Four and Brett Favre’s Comeback— Jose Canseco tries to stay relevant, baseball had all of its Opening Days and a whole bunch of growth hormone news.
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The Ramble: The Super Bowl XLI Post Mortem— Miami becomes Peyton’s Place, as the Colts thoroughly outclass the sloppy and undisciplined Bears.
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The Ramble: Vince Young, That Urlacher Guy, Terrell Owens and Other NFL Stuff— Let’s talk NFL. Two sentences per entry … that’s my rule and I’m sticking to it.
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The Ramble: The Stupid Rules of Football Edition— Football is such a great sport, how is it that the sport has so many horrible rules?
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The Ramble: Instant Replay, NFL, Plummer’s 'Stache, Ryder Cup, Ryan Howard, And More— After about a month hiatus, the Ramble is back.
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The Ramble: The Short And Sweet Edition— Verbosity takes a holiday and breviloquence moves in, as there’s a two sentence limit per entry during The Ramble.
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The Ramble: Tiger, Tour de France, Ricky Williams, A-Rod, A Bad Wang, And Of Course, Barry Bonds— For as good as it is to have a good putter, it’s much worse to have a bad Wang.
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The Ramble: Michelle Wie, Cowboy Gets Shot, The Mitchell Investigation, Barry Bonds And Other Random Musings— Nobody issues better random musings, to a smaller audience, than I.
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Another Beachin’ Ramble: Bonds' Perjury, Greg Anderson's Lawyer, MLB’s All-Star Game, Zidane's Zidiotry And Other World Cup Silliness— A Bonds indictment is likely, Greg Anderson is in jail and Zidane ruins it for France.
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Ramblin’ From The Beach: The Knicks, Joe Mauer, Walk-offs, Cycling Dopes, Eddie Griffin, and Pro Wrestlers With Pot— A governor can shut down a state, but can a governor shut down a team? Please?
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The Ramble: Oregon State, The Knicks, Jose Canseco, World Cup Soccer, March Madness And If You Can’t Stand The Heat Get Out Of Hell’s Kitchen— The good, the bad, the funny, the ridiculous. Not my hairstyles over the years but the past week in sports.
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The Ramble: The Stanley Cup, Phil Mickelson, Human Growth Hormone, The World Cup And Santonio Holmes— Forget about the NBA being rigged, the real conspiracy involves the World Cup and Italy scoring for Team USA.
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The Ramble: Human Growth Hormone, Players Unions, Big Ben Roethlisberger, and the World Cup...And NOT Barry Bonds— Human growth hormone and helmetless quarterbacks are dominating the sports headlines these days. Let’s have some fun.
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The Ramble: Jason Grimsley, Jose Canseco And The Coverage Of Major League Baseball’s Drug Problem— The ripple effect from Balco continues to be a problem for MLB. And has Jose gotten his apology yet?
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The Ramble: Stanley Cup, NBA Finals, Pujols' Injury, Ricky Williams, And Of Course Barry Bonds— It’s almost summer as the two winter sports finally play their championships, and other marginally important stuff, too.
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The Ramble: Indy 500, NASCAR, College Lacrosse, Ironhead, NBA Playoffs, And — Who Else? — Barry Bonds— Two car racing mentions in the headline? Have I gone crazy? Or am I just crazy?
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The Ramble: Barbaro, Barry Bonds, Interleague Play, NBA Officiating And Women’s Beach Volleyball— It’s the end of another week, so here’s your weekly antidote to the lame imitation of our Ramble.
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The Ramble: The Chicago Cubs, Annika Sorenstam, The Red Sox-Yankee Rivalry, Ricardo Mayorga And A New World Record In The Men’s 100 Meter Dash— The Ramble: The Chicago Cubs, Annika Sorenstam, The Red Sox-Yankee Rivalry, Ricardo Mayorga And A New World Record In The Men’s 100 Meter Dash
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The Ramble: Barry Bonds Changes His Name To Richard, Joe Torre Gets The Easiest 1000 Wins In MLB History, The Nets Shock The Heat And Don’t You Dare Compare Kobe To Michael— Are there any reasons why Bonds shouldn’t be called Dick? And where did Kobe go?
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The Ramble: Bonds’ Balls, Daly And Barkley’s Gambling Habits, Don King And Clemens The Mercenary— Everyone will be grabbing for Bonds’ balls, but how will we know if they’re really his?
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The Ramble: NFL Draft, Kenyon, Delmon, Pujols, and The Mets— Don’t settle for lame imitations – cough New York Post cough – settle in with the real thing.
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Satire: Mock NFL Draft, The Mascot Edition— Here's a mascot-based mock draft that makes a real mockery of the NFL's athletic swap meet.
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The Ramble: Women Tennis, Stop Whining About Wimbledon Winnings— This year the women’s winner at Wimbledon will make $54,000 less than the men’s winner, but they are still overpaid.
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The Ramble: Is Barry Bonds Throwing In The Towel?— Bonds’ knee and elbow are giving him trouble. Is Hank Aaron’s home run record safe?
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The Ramble: I’ve Been Ripped Off By The New York Post— The New York Post has a new sports column entitled “The Rumble.” It should be called “The Rip Off.”
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The Ramble: Jerry Koosman, The Most Underrated Pitcher Of His Era— Steady and effective Jerry Koosman was one of baseball’s best pitchers from the late '60s until the early '80s.
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The Ramble: The NFL Draft, NBA Embarrassments, The Mets, and Tiger Woods— The sports world is full of great stuff to talk about, and I’m just full of it. And you know it.
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Barry Bonds You Have A Problem Called Perjury: The Ramble— Did Bonds read Faust and misinterpret its meaning?
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Why Everyone Should Read Game Of Shadows: The Ramble— This isn’t a review, but a recommendation that provides a bunch of reasons to read a great book.
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The Ramble: Baseball, Steroids, Duke Lax and Harold And Kumar— Pete Rose was banned for life, but Greg Anderson isn’t. What gives?
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The Ramble: Buster Olney Should Just Shut Up
— Why didn’t Buster Olney blow the whistle on the steroid users in baseball years ago?
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The Ramble, Breaking News Edition: MLB To Investigate Steroid Use By Bonds And Others— According to ESPN, Bud Selig has decided to launch an investigation regarding steroid use in Major League Baseball.
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The Ramble: Gonzaga, The NFL, Opening Day, Anna Benson And (Of Course) Barry Bonds— Gonzaga’s meltdown, overrated wide receivers, and the start of the baseball season are all fodder for discussion.
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The Ramble: Terrell Owens, Bad Heavyweight Boxers, and Good Collegiate Wrestlers— Everyone makes money off college athletes who participate in revenue-generating sports — so pay the athletes! And other stuff too.
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The Ramble: March Madness, First Round Edition— It’s the time of year when my wife wishes we didn’t have DirecTv. Thank God I pay the bills.
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The Ramble: Bonds' Trainer Ruined a Hall of Fame Athlete— The excerpt from Game of Shadows makes one thing clear: Greg Anderson ruined Barry Bonds’ career.
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The Ramble: March Madness, NFL Free Agency, and "Down With Fidel"— It’s been a busy, busy weekend in the world of sports and I’m here to make sense of it all for you.
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The Ramble: MLB's Drug Scandal And The Culture Of Permissiveness— Did baseball’s culture of permissiveness give the players an excuse for using performance-enhancing drugs?
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The Ramble: The Barry Bonds Edition
— From steroids to other drugs, to the media’s coverage of the Bonds story, there’s a lot to talk about.
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The Ramble: NFL Labor Negotiations Special Edition— I don’t really care about the NFL’s labor issues. Neither should you. Here’s why.
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The Ramble: Vince Young And The Wonderlic Test, March Madness and Kerry Wood’s Knee— Let’s ignore the nonsense about Vince Young’s alleged score on the Wonderlic Test, shall we?
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The Ramble: The NFL Combine, The Knicks, Spring Training and Barry Bonds In A Dress— As one door closes, several others open. The Olympics are done but Barry Bonds is wearing a dress.
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The Olympic Ramble: Sasha Cohen, Julia Mancuso and Apolo Anton Ohno— The Torino Games are winding down, but there hasn’t been a slowdown in the action.
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The Olympic Ramble: Tanith Belbin, Emotional Italians and Ice Dancing— The Winter Olympics are winding down, but the action is still hot and heavy.
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The Olympic Ramble: Shani Davis, The Anti-Bode And Real Hockey— Anybody who doesn’t think that the Winter Olympics are exciting hasn’t been paying attention.
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The Olympic Ramble: Bode Miller, Chad Hedrick, and Lampley's Hair— In an Olympic haze, I don’t know what day it is. But I love curling. And Jim Lampley’s hair.
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The Olympic Ramble: The Luge And Costas' Hair— There’s too much going on in Torino for me to stay quiet. Ski jumping, Bob Costas’ hair and luge, oh my!
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Olympic Ramble: Opening Ceremonies, First Two Days Of Competition— The Olympics are only two days old but there’s more going on than any one person can keep track of.
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